I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
I'm currently the head of English and raising standards leader at a secondary school in Birmingham. I'm passionate about my subject and passionate about ensuring that the young people we serve leave education with a high competency in English.
Prior to teaching I worked in the radio industry as a presenter for 7 years and so when I became a teacher I enjoyed the opportunity to teach Media studies.
You'll find hundreds of English and Media studies resources.
A knowledge booklet designed for students to use as they study Romeo and Juliet in class. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 GCSE students.
Lessons for all scenes and scaffolded activities for students who may need it.
All lessons include a ‘do now’ activity that encourages knowledge retention and provide key term definitions to assist reading of scenes. Context is embedded and advanced reading around literary heritage is also provided.
Lessons provide opportunity for students to develop and practice:
language/structure analysis
Narrative writing
Writing about view points and perspectives
evaluation skills
SPaG
GCSE literature skills
academic writing including creating introductions
These fully differentiated (by colour) resources support the teaching of the entire novel 'Two weeks with the Queen.' Medium term plan also included along with homework tasks and assessment opportunities.
Over 25 lessons ready to go! Download and teach.
The medium term plan signposts opportunities to develop language and literature skills for 9-1 GCSE.
Differentiation:
Purple = low ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
These lessons are ready to go - download and teach straight away.
Resources provide opportunities to:
- Read for pleasure
- Analyse language and structure
- Analyse pathetic fallacy
- Analyse character and theme
- Writing opportunities including persuasive writing, diary entry,news reports, writing to advise, formal letter writing, leaflet writing
- Develop literacy skills including sentence forms, direct speech
- Analyse non fiction texts
- Build skills for the new 9-1 GCSE English language and literature specifications
Resources to support the teaching of the new specification (9-1) AQA paper 2 reading section.
Resources are fully differentiated by colour:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunity for pupil talk, provide objectives and assessment tasks. Model answers also included.
The texts used are taken from the AQA text book (turtle on the cover) but texts are also included in this bundle.
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of The Edge by Alan Gibbons
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
resource provide opportunities for:
- self and peer assessment
- context exploration
- language analysis
- narrative writing
- agony aunt article writing
- police report writing
- exploration of idioms and dramatic irony
- exploration of bullying and racism
Differentiated resources to support the revision of the power and conflict poetry for new specification.
Included:
- Differentiated revision quizzes to use at the start and end of lessons to show progress - but could also be used as homework and for last minute revision - fun and engaging
- Power and conflict poetry cards - each poem card has an image, context bullet points and key words from the poem - can be used to categorise and revise
- revision lessons on context and analysis (differentiated)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Differentiated resources to support the revision of the conflict poetry for new specification.
Included:
- Differentiated revision quizzes to use at the start and end of lessons to show progress - but could also be used as homework and for last minute revision - fun and engaging
- Power and conflict poetry cards - each poem card has an image, context bullet points and key words from the poem - can be used to categorise and revise
- revision lessons on context and analysis (differentiated)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Fully differentiated resources to support the teaching of a wide variety of poetry forms for KS3.
- Ballads
- elegies
- sonnets
- slang and dialect poetry
- performance poetry
Resources provide opportunities for:
- speaking and listening
- peer and self assessment
- language, form and structure analysis
- context exploration
Poems covered:
- Half caste
- Ballad of Hillsboorough
- The chimney sweeoer
- This is this six oclock news
- Ballad of homeless jack
- ballad of Frankie and Johnny
- On my first sonne
A bundle of resources to support the revsiison of ‘An Inspectpr Calls’ for new specification 9-1 GCSE literature.
Included:
- context revision
- Remembering quotations resources
- sample answers
- quotation revision
- forming analytical paragraphs
- sample questions
- revision of plot and significant characters and themes
- structure revision
Resources to support the teaching of the new specification (9-1) AQA paper 1 reading section.
Resources are fully differentiated by colour:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
Resources provide opportunity for pupil talk, provide objectives and assessment tasks. Model answers also included.
The texts used are taken from the AQA text book (turtle on the cover) but texts are also included in this bundle.
Resources to support the revision of An Inspector Calls for new specification GCSE.
Includes:
- revision of plot, characters and themes
- revision of quotations
- retaining quotations through image association and chants
- sample exam responses
- practice questions
- opportunity for self and peer assessment
- form and structure revision
- revision of context
These resources cover Act 2, act 3, act 4 and act 5 of Romeo and Juliet and meet the requirements of the new GCSE 9-1 specification.
19lessons included that are meticulously planned, fully differentiated and numbered for ease of use with a wide range of activities included that prepare students for language as well as literature.
These lessons can be downloaded and taught right away.
All lessons are fully differentiated by colour
Purple = lower ability
Blue = middle ability
Yellow = higher ability
Red = most able
These resources cover the following areas of act 1:
- Context
- Imagery analysis
- Analysis of sonnet form
- Language, form and structure analysis
- Opportunity for role play/speaking and listening
- Analysis development and practice
- Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities
- Character and theme presentation
- Soliloquy analysis and comparison
- Homework tasks
Resources to support the teaching of act 1 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.
Fully differentiated (by colour) resources to support the teaching of An Inspector Calls for the new specification 9-1 GCSE.
Included:
- Power points to support teaching of act 2 and 3
- Context exploration
- Medium term plan (MTP) with skills for language papers embedded
- 6 exam assessment questions (2 lit, 4 lang)
- homework opportunities
- revision power points and activities for after teaching
Differentiation:
purple = lower ability
blue = middle ability
yellow = higher ability
A large bundle of differentiated writing lessons and resources
- imaginative writing using a variety of stimuli
- descriptive writing
- persuasive writing
- letter writing
- writing to argue
- AQA GCSE section B writing resources for paper 1 and 2
- speech writing
Differentiation:
Purple - low
Blue - middle
Yellow - night
Resources to support the revision of Romeo and Juliet for new specification. Perfect for revising the play ahead of mock exams or the GCSEs.
Includes:
- extract to whole revision
- context revision
- revision of writer's methods and analysis
- sample responses
- sample assessment materials
- carousel activities for group work
- a revision guide - useful as a homework project
- self and peer assessment opportunities
- tips for tackling the question
- walking talking mock style activities to guide students through the question
- quotation revision
This bundle contains resources for the entirety of the novel. (Chapters 1-10)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources provide opportunity to develop skills for GCSE 9-1.
Also included:
- 2 lots of exam revision for the literature exam
- Quotations with images to aide revision
- a revision guide
- structure strips to allow students to structure better responses
Fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of English language paper 1 and paper 2.
Lessons cover all 5 questions on each paper and include texts to use while studying.
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources to support the revision of the power and conflict poems plus unseen revision and sample assessment materials.
Included:
- revision quizzes (differentiated)
- revision card sort
- comparison revision and practice
- unseen poetry revision
- sample assessments for power and conflict
- sample assessments for unseen poetry
Whole novel fully differentiated with 2 lots of exam revision for students to practice structuring responses and exploring the extract to whole element.
Also included are 3 sample assessments, a revision guide and key quotations with images which are ideal for displays and revision.
All resources develop student ability in the new specification 9-1 skills.
Differentiation:
Purple - lower
Blue - middle
Yellow - higher
Over 20 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of n Inspector calls. (The whole play)
Differentiation:
purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
Resources are matched to the new specification literature course and enable students to:
- analyse language and structure
- explore context and make links within answers
- explore character presentation
- explore themes
- explore effect on the audience
- using evidence
Resources also provide some opportunities to develop skills needed for the new specification language exams including:
- speech writing
- imaginative writing
- true or false practice
- selecting and retrieving information
- 'How far do you agree' evaluation practice
- language analysis
All 10 chapters fully differentiated (by colour)
Purple = lower
blue = middle
yellow = higher
All resources are planned in line with the new specification and cover:
- writer's methods
- extract to whole -
- context
Also embedded are several skills to enable students to access the language papers. Activities included to help students work on:
- evaluating
- comparing
- writing
- selecting and retrieving
